A stronger macroeconomic position when the financial crisis erupted allowed Latin American economies to mitigate its impact through fiscal expansions, reversing the characteristic procyclical behaviour of fiscal policy. At the same time, in the last two decades fiscal rules have been extensively...

When borrowers are delinquent, senior debtholders prefer liquidation whereas junior debtholders prefer to maintain their option value by delaying resolution or modifying the loan. In the mortgage market, a conflict of interest (“holdup”) arises when servicers of securitized senior liens are...

This book deals with the concept of Decentralized Lending on the Blockchain. In order to familiarize with the topic, the basic principles of the underlying technology, such as blockchain, smart contracts or the general architecture of Decentralized Finance, are highlighted. More specific points...

Subsidized R&D collaboration: The effect of innovation vouchers on innovation activity and performance -- Choking under pressure: The effect of asymmetric contests on effort, stress and performance -- Performance in contests: The role of risk and confidence.

Giulia Barbanente investigates the impact of large-scale foreign land acquisitions (LSLAs) on rural households in Ethiopia and Tanzania. Given the scale of LSLAs happening in developing countries, there is urgent need to objectively assess whether risks for smallholders are balanced by positive...

Wirtschaftlichkeitsuntersuchungen und gesundheitsökonomische Evaluation -- Methodik der Entscheidungsanalyse -- Entwicklung eines Markov-Modells -- Ergebnisse der Basisfallbetrachtung, Sensitivitäts- und Szenarioanalysen des Fallbeispiels.

Defining normal cash holdings as the holdings a firm with the same characteristics would have had in the late 1990s, we find that the average abnormal cash holdings of U.S. firms after the financial crisis amount to 10% of cash holdings, which represents an 87% increase in abnormal cash holdings...